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Holmesfield market report S18 2, Dronfield
The S18 2 (Holmesfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,698 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in S18 2 (Dronfield) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 25 registered 2026 sales put the S18 2 (Dronfield) median at £300,000, up 25% on five years earlier, with a mean of £306,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,698 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
S18 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside S18 (Dronfield). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where S18 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's S18 2 prices, from the sold record
In the S18 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £300,000, from 25 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £306,000, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in S18 2
By floor space, homes in S18 2 have sold for about £3,210 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, S18 2 runs 5% above it.
S18 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 79 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 78 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 84 |
| 2022 | £283,000 | £331,850 | 99 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 84 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 77 |
| 2019 | £212,500 | £278,537 | 84 |
| 2018 | £202,000 | £269,270 | 83 |
| 2017 | £215,400 | £293,784 | 94 |
| 2016 | £187,500 | £262,314 | 73 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 83 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 93 |
| 2013 | £147,700 | £212,526 | 96 |
| 2012 | £148,500 | £218,573 | 70 |
| 2011 | £147,000 | £221,913 | 57 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 63 |
| 2009 | £132,500 | £212,995 | 85 |
| 2008 | £159,000 | £260,635 | 59 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 110 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 120 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 99 |
| 2004 | £131,500 | £238,830 | 71 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 87 |
| 2002 | £89,500 | £168,393 | 119 |
| 2001 | £74,500 | £143,222 | 95 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 94 |
| 1999 | £56,000 | £111,605 | 111 |
| 1998 | £58,200 | £117,481 | 96 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 102 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 67 |
| 1995 | £48,400 | £105,214 | 61 |
In cash terms the typical S18 2 home went from £48,400 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 185%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 10% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the S18 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
S18 2 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 99 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the S18 2 market
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around S18 2
S18 2 falls under North East Derbyshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £774 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £556 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,184, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North East Derbyshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £774 a month is £9,288 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on S18 2 (Holmesfield)
Are property prices falling in S18 2 (Holmesfield)?
Is S18 2 (Holmesfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in S18 2 (Holmesfield)?
Will S18 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
S18's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 37 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole S18 district, not just S18 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Brierley Road, Unstone, Dronfield
- South Close, Unstone, Dronfield
- Holmley Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, S18
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every S18 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: S prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the S area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £235,000 | £330,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+50%) | £750,000 (+52%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £175,000 (+9%) | £220,000 (+26%) | £321,000 (+46%) | £550,000 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £140,000 (+6%) | £175,000 (+25%) | £256,500 (+47%) | £350,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £148,000 (+23%) | £265,000 (+79%) | £461,750 (+74%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the S area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, S area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in S18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are S18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| S18 1 | £295,000 | 31 |
| S18 3 | £307,200 | 12 |
| S18 4 | £307,500 | 4 |
| S18 7 | £317,500 | 8 |
| S18 8 | £310,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full S18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how S18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in S18 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in S18 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the S18 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded S18 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim S18 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with S18 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual S18 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.